Yes, go to the Startup control panel and select the disk you want to startup
from. However, It is likely that your dock will not startup the 2300, if it was
setup by and to run the 280c. If you intend to use both the 280c & 2300 running
off your dock's internal drive, you will need to partition your dock drive into
two disks and then using your 280c, install your OS on one drive, then using
your 2300, install your OS on the other disk. Then one drive will be the 2300's
internal drive and the other drive will be the 280c's internal drive. The two
computers cannot share the same OS. Once you set up in the Startup Disk control
panel which startup disk each computer is to startup from, they will always
startup just fine. The only way around this (I think) would be to install a
universal system ("to startup any Mac" option in the OS installer). However, I
would not so this because the two machines are very different with respect to
the software they use. Plus, the Duo is slow enough already. Bogging the system
down with lots of FAT code is just asking for a more sluggish experience,
extension conflicts and general trouble.
Neil Heyde wrote:
> Sorry to trouble people if this is a recurrent query, but I've long used a
> 280c in my Dock and had no trouble starting from the dock's own 2 GB SCSI
> hard drive. With my 2300c I can't seem to do this without holding the
> Cmd-opt-shift-delete key combination - it appears to try to start from the
> internal disk, but gives up before the happy mac. Does anyone know if
> there's a way to avoid this?
>
> (Os 8.1 on all systems)
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